Otto John person
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“British intelligence saw Otto John as a far superior alternative to Galen. As a survivor of the Valkyrie plot against Hitler, Otto John lacked Galen's unsavory baggage. After the coup failed, John narrowly escaped for his life with his life…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 13 @ 32:15
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“and prone to alcoholism. When Galen clearly found most disturbing about John, however, was his heroic past as an anti-Nazi resistor. His moral statute, particularly among the British allies, made him a threat to Galen. John's meeting with D…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 13 @ 34:42
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post in the Far East. And a few years later, he quietly retired. During the turbulent transition period, Reinhard Galen was confronted with a strong domestic challenger for his spy throne. In fact, Otto John, head of the BFV, West Germany's…
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British intelligence saw Otto John as a far superior alternative to Galen. As a survivor of the Valkyrie plot against Hitler, Otto John lacked Galen's unsavory baggage. After the coup failed, John narrowly escaped for his life with his life…
▶ 32:47
Worried about the re-Nazification of Germany, as he witnessed the growing power of the Galen and many other Third Reich officials finding positions in Bonn. High among these officials was Chancellor Adenauer's right-hand man, Hans Goebke, G…
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the racial identification system that served as the basis for the extermination camps. The CIA comparative analysis of Galen and Otto John unsurprisingly found John is the moral of the two, which meant definitely he's not going to get picke…
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post-war Germany. Dulles invited him to lunch at his Georgetown house, and afterwards they walked and chatted in the garden. Dulles was eager to hear John's thoughts on rearmament of West Germany, a hotly debated issue at the time, which Du…
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the militaristic types from Germany's past. Dulles was not pleased with that at all. My whole impression, he later wrote, of John was that he was not serious. Dulles was predeposed against John to begin with. Galen had filled the CIA direct…
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and prone to alcoholism. When Galen clearly found most disturbing about John, however, was his heroic past as an anti-Nazi resistor. His moral statute, particularly among the British allies, made him a threat to Galen. John's meeting with D…
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Soon, Otto John's life would be upset. In July, while on a trip to West Berlin to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the failed coup against Hitler, John disappeared. The news that West Germany's security chief had vanished sent shockwaves…
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for ex-Nazis. Galen gloated over his political enemy's exit from Bonn and called him a traitor. Then came the final twist in a bizarre spy drama. In December 1955, at the Bonnstag, West Germany's parliament, launched an inquiry into the aff…
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and bundled off to East Germany against his will. West German authorities did not buy the story and he was arrested and convicted of working on behalf of East Germany's communist government, serving four years in prison. But for the rest of…
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And that kind of goes along with the line of, you know, people saying, well, how did the communists go along with it? It's one big club, people. The elimination of Otto John paved the way for Galen to consolidate his power. In February of 1…